Cottage season has come to Canada and everyone’s checking the weather before making holiday plans. According to Canadian Online Trends from Hitwise Canada, two of the top three most searched websites in the ‘news and media’ category for last week were talking about the weather. The Weather Network led the way with 7.78 per cent of visitors while Weather Office Canada secured third spot with 3.49 per cent.

Yahoo! News Canada rounded out the top three most visited sites with 6.09 per cent.

The results also showed that Canadians like their news coverage and it doesn’t just have to be local. The BBC took eighth and ninth spot in the list with their BBC homepage and BBC news pages.

Below are the top 10 most visited news and media sites for the week ending July 4, 2009.